The Model For Windows 8 Is Linux

By Dana Blankenhorn: I have made an important conceptual mistake in my recent coverage of Microsoft (MSFT) and its Windows 8 launch. Like many of you, I've been looking at it in comparison with Apple (AAPL). Apple supports multiple operating systems. It supports Mac OSX Lion on the desktop. It supports iOS on its tablets and phones. Microsoft is going at things a different way. Windows 8 is designed to work in conjunction with its Azure cloud, on a desktop and (through the Metro interface) on media tablets and phones as well. One operating system to rule them all, I wrote. How silly! How trite! How impossible. But it's not impossible at all. It's Linux, whose biggest distributor is Red Hat (RHT). Linux has been more than competitive with Windows for a decade, thanks in part to the Apache Web server. It is more than competitive on tablets and phones, thanks to Google'sComplete Story »

AmazonThe Microsoft Azure cloud computing platform may still be a distant second-place contender to Amazon's $10 billion Amazon Web Services juggernaut, but Microsoft has one edge: It can sell to its existing base of large enterprise customers.

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Red Hat Inc. (NYSE:RHT) shares surged more than 6% in the after-market trading session yesterday, after the cloud computing company reported financial results for its third quarter of fiscal year 2016. The company delivered mixed results for the current quarter, and raised its revenue outlook for the upcoming quarter based on increasing cloud momentum.

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Red Hat appear to have decided to bury the hatchet - at least for now - and work together to offer a new standard for enterprise cloud. The longtime adversaries in the software industry shared the details in a webcast, and Red Hat’s trademark, Linux OS, will now be available to users of Microsoft Azure. The financial aspects of the deal have been kept private.

Satya Nadella aims to transform Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) to bring back its glorious past, when the tech giant used to have everyone waiting for its innovative, and revolutionary products and services. His new policy of “mobile first, cloud first” is aimed at diversifying it from its traditional revenue base of selling licensed products.

By Matt Schilling:Let's get straight to the point: this could very well be the breakout results investors were looking for in terms of Red Hat (RHT). The world's largest distributor of Linux operating systems posted results that blew expectations clearly out of the water and announced a $300 million dollar stock buyback.